Ric Bucher

Ric Bucher

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Ric Bucher joined ESPN in January 1999 as a San Francisco-based senior writer covering professional basketball for ESPN The Magazine, and as an NBA reporter for SportsCenter and NBA 2Night. Bucher also contributes to ESPN.com.

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Rating the first playoff weekend

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

Here are eight bests culled from the first eight games of the NBA playoffs.

Story | Conversation | April 20, 2009

Raptors acquire Marion from Heat

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

The Toronto Raptors have agreed to send Jermaine O'Neal and Jamario Moon to the Miami Heat in exchange for Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks, league sources told ESPN The Magazine's Ric Bucher.

Story | Conversation | February 13, 2009

Trade talk: Who's staying, who's going?

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

With the NBA trading deadline looming in two weeks, Marc Stein passes along five fresh dribbles of trade chatter from discussions with team officials and player agents plugged into the front-office grapevine.

Story | Conversation | February 05, 2009

Weekend Dime: Talking deal or no deal with Donnie Walsh

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

Alan Diaz/AP Photo When Miami Heat forward Shawn Marion opens his eyes on the morning of Feb. 20, will he still be throwing them down in South Florid...

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Weekend Dime: The top 20 expiring contracts

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

Noah Graham/Getty Images Allen Iverson already has laced up his walking shoes once this season, getting dealt from Denver to Detroit. It can't poss...

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Sources: Suns a 'yes' away from acquiring Shaq for Marion

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

Sources say the Suns are deciding whether to pull the trigger on a trade for Shaquille O'Neal.

Story | Conversation | February 05, 2008

Weekend Dime: Nash on next generation of PGs

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

Getty Images Tony Parker is 25. Deron Williams is 23. Chris Paul is 22. So point guard will be the least of the West's worries in future All-Star Gam...

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SPECIAL WEEKEND EDITION And the award goes to ...

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

What do you get when the final Friday of the regular season falls on Friday the 13th? You get the award ballots I'll be turning into the league offi...

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Talkin' the trade talk

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

...San Antonio. One of the more interesting scenarios I heard Tuesday came from my ESPN colleague Ric Bucher, who reported on NBA Coast to Coast and SportsCenter that the Lakers recently had a deal...

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SPECIAL WEEKEND EDITION Cubes and the inner circle

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

(Editor's note: ESPN.com senior NBA writer Marc Stein supplies each item for this around-the-league notebook edition of the Daily Dime.) You've surel...

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Bring on Game 7

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

LOS ANGELES -- It wasn't just a theory, apparently. It applies in the playoffs, too. It was true this time, yet again, even with the Suns' Ko...

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Bad Shaq, brilliant Bulls

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

No, Miami. The sight of Michael Jordan up in that United Center suite, celebrating Shaquille O'Neal's fourth foul and Ben Gordon's biggest triple wi...

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Manu School

Marc Stein, ESPN.com

APDuncan and Parker, two-thirds of the Spurs' terrific trio, were less spectacular than Ginobili (see below), but no less effective. PHOENIX -- They ...

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